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and the English past tense
mine the nature of mental computation. Over the last decade the focus of this debate has been the contrast between classical views of mental computation, seen as the rule-based manipulation of strings of symbols with a syntax, as opposed to more distributed systems, operating subsymbolically and without syntax. Despite the pervasive and crucial nature of this debate, it has nonetheless been har...
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عنوان ژورنال: English Language and Linguistics
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1360-6743,1469-4379
DOI: 10.1017/s1360674301000235